Rita Ora Quotes

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

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• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • True
  • Because
  • False

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Old

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Two
  • Director

• I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Work
  • Play
  • Listen

• Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Opportunity
  • Mom
  • Picture

• I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Done
  • Me
  • Like

• Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Design
  • Special
  • Century

• I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Heart

• ... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• I think I've far exceeded what I ever thought I could possibly do.

  

  Billy Crystal

• Take personal responsibility. A lot of people go, 'Well, I'll get a dog because I have a kid and a kid needs a dog.' And it doesn't work out for that dog and the dog is on the street.

  

  Betty White
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

  

  Diplo
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

• When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Mind
  • Judge

• I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Game
  • Risk

• You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Up
  • Long
  • Gay

• A lot of artists do music that never sees the light of day, and I know fans wanna hear it, but – sometimes – we get very selective or labels get selective about what they put out, but, nowadays, everything is digital with social media and people just wanna hear what you’re up to, what you’re doing.

  

  Carmit Bachar
  • People
  • Music
  • Hear

• The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Live
  • Die
  • Sacrifice

• Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Justice
  • Causes
  • Equal

• I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

  

  Rita Ora